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Jane Goodall was an English primatologist and anthropologist known as a pioneer in primate ethology. She spent more than six decades studying the social and family life of wild chimpanzees in the Kasakela community at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.
Jane Goodall arrived at Gombe Stream National Park on the 14th of July 1960, becoming the first of what would later be called the Trimates. She had been sent there by the palaeontologist Louis Leakey, who mentored her early career.
Jane Goodall watched a chimpanzee strip the leaves from a twig and use it to fish termites from a mound, a behaviour that became known as termite fishing. The discovery challenged the belief that only humans could make and use tools.
Jane Goodall broke with the standard scientific practice of numbering research subjects because she wanted to document their individual personalities. She named chimpanzees such as David Greybeard, Goliath, Flo, and Frodo, and was later described as the only human ever accepted into chimpanzee society.
Jane Goodall died in her sleep of cardiac arrest on the 1st of October 2025, at a friend's home in Beverly Hills, California. She was 91 years old and had been on a speaking tour across the United States.
Jane Goodall founded the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 to support chimpanzee research and conservation. She also launched the Roots and Shoots youth programme in 1991, the Tchimpounga Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Centre in 1992, and the TACARE reforestation project in 1994.